Involving Youth in Climate Action Decisions

Young people will shape the societies of tomorrow. Their perspectives must be included in the discussion on challenges and opportunities arising from the current crisis, enabling them to help shape high-level policy debates and decision-making processes. For instance, how young people move around matters. How they get to their places of education, work, friends and other opportunities often sets long-lasting travel behaviours. How young people move around (or refrain from moving) will matter from environmental sustainability, economic, health, and well-being perspectives. And yet rarely are the aspirations, desires, travel behaviours, and expectations of youth directly or explicitly integrated into transport policy.
How we can leverage the current energy crisis to protect the most vulnerable, while at the same time bring about changes that will allow society to become more just, inclusive, and green? We need a societal shift, and we need to give a seat to youth in policy decision-making processes. After all, they inherit what we leave them, and they are the future. Join us at the OECD COP27 Virtual Pavilion:
www.oecd-events.org/cop27.
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